Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Risk something or forever sit with your dreams.

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

A person without imagination is like a teabag without hot water.

There are times when dreams sustain us more than facts.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

Only love can heal the wounds of the past.

What counts is not the things that happen, but what we do with them.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

There’s nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.